{"id":86623,"date":"2017-04-19T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86623"},"modified":"2017-04-19T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:20:59","slug":"u-s-education-secretary-to-visit-vwcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/19\/u-s-education-secretary-to-visit-vwcs\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Education Secretary to visit VWCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent news<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will tour the Van Wert City School District.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86624\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Betty-DeVos-headshot-4-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Betty DeVos\" width=\"150\" height=\"191\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Betty DeVos<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The visit comes in response to Weingarten\u2019s challenge to DeVos to visit a great public school system and engage with teachers, parents, students, and the community about what is working in their public schools and what they need in order to strengthen them.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten, DeVos, local union leaders, and school officials will have roundtable discussions with pre-K, early childhood, and special education teachers and staff. They will tour classrooms; hear presentations from students in robotics and engineering classes, as part of the district\u2019s project-based learning focus; and discuss Van Wert\u2019s public schools with teachers, students, parents, and the community.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert, a rural district in northwest Ohio, exemplifies many of the strategies Weingarten outlined in a speech earlier this year on building great neighborhood public school systems. These strategies include promoting children\u2019s well-being, engaging in powerful learning, building teacher capacity, and fostering cultures of collaboration; they stand in contrast to the massive budget cuts and privatization efforts being pushed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent news This Thursday, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will tour the Van Wert City School District. The visit comes in response to Weingarten\u2019s challenge to DeVos to visit a great public school system and engage with teachers, parents, students, and the community about what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 14:46:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}